The creation of Area 51 began in April of 1955, when a Lockheed test pilot, Tony LeVier, searched for a remote site to test the U-2. Grooms Lake is chosen as the location for the runway. By August of 1955, the U-2 makes its first flight from Grooms Lake. That was only the beginning for test flights from Area 51. In April 1962, the first A-12 Blackbird was tested at Groom Lake. February 1982, the F-117A Stealth fighter takes off …showed first 75 words of 1099 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1099 total…the military doesn’t tell civilians about their aircraft does not mean that there must be alien intervention. It simply means that the government is trying to protect it new toys. They have every right to keep their top-secret aircraft a secret...that’s why it is called top secret, right? The government is like a little kid. How many of you when you were little wanted to share your new toys? I didn’t!